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Overview

Calibre LFD

The Calibre LFD tool captures a design’s response to manufacturing process window effects, empowering engineers to identify and fix variability, reliability, and manufacturing yield issues before tape-out.

Get in touch with our technical team: 1-800-547-3000

chip surrounded by external circuitry | The Calibre LFD tool captures a design’s response to manufacturing effects, empowering engineers to identify and fix yield issues before tape-out.

Calibre LFD Resources

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Key Features

LFD Virtual Fab Predicts Manufacturing Process Impact

The Calibre LFD tool provides a virtual fab that predicts the “as manufactured” lithographic process variability impact on your design.

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Prevent Yield Failures

Identify Defects Across Manufacturing Process Windows

<p>Accurately identify specific manufacturing failures and yield inhibitors across process window conditions in a DRC-clean design.</p>

colorful images of IC wafers | Calibre Design

Guide Design Trade-Offs

Reduce Process Variability to Optimize Performance

<p>Guide design trade-off decisions with an accurately calculated manufacturing-aware design variability index to reduce your product layout’s susceptibility to process variability.</p>

Hand pointing to translucent squares floating in air | Calibre LFD guides design trade-off decisions with an accurately calculated manufacturing-aware design variability index to reduce your product layout’s susceptibility to process variability.

Accurate, Fast, Integrated

Advanced Machine Learning Technology Reduces Runtime

<p>Integrated advanced machine learning techniques produce accurate results and provide major runtime improvement.</p>

Outline of head on background of schematics with light rays beaming from objects in brain | Calibre Design

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